Body Talk with Friends – Exercise 4, The Ultimate Resolution

Body Talk with Friends – Exercise 4, The Ultimate Resolution

Instead of a New Year’s Resolution to change your body, I challenge you and your friends (make it a group project!) to have a resolution of loving the body you have. This may be the more difficult resolution of the two! To get started, you might want to check out the article and activities in Making Friends with Your Body for some ideas on how to do this.

My wish for you as you start heading toward body positive friendships comes from one of my favorite poems, which I have adapted below. It is called “Imagine a Woman” written by Patricia Lynn Reilly…

Imagine a girl in love with her own body.
A girl who believes her body is enough, just as it is.
Who celebrates her body as an exquisite resource.

Imagine a girl who values the girls in her life.
A girl who sits in circles of girls.
Who is reminded of the truth about herself when she forgets.

A Message from Dr. Melissa Johnson:

Here at the Institute, we’re dedicated to empowering girls, women, families, and circles of community. We are excited by current research, including neuroscience, as we implement best practices in assisting girls to grow – in families, through education, and in our global community. Through psychological services, educational workshops, mentorship, and our professional training programs, we seek to build skills and relational connections while advocating for positive social change at school, online, at work and in life. Helping girls grow in mindfulness, happiness, and hardiness, in self-compassion and community, in finding the courage to be true to themselves and allies with others – this is the journey. Sometimes people ask, “why do you do what you do?” Each of us at the Institute has our own unique and impassioned story to tell about why we do what we do. Bottom line, we do it because it matters. It matters for our girls, our boys, our selves, and our world.